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The museum also offers other attractions, including a civil rights movement timeline, an 800-name recognition wall, a digitization laboratory, a sign-in wall, media and presentation center, community meeting room, library, and gift shop. [2] The 3,500-square-foot museum opened in 2019. It is located in a building Williams designed in 1986. [5]
Orangeburg Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 44 contributing buildings in the central business district of Orangeburg. It includes a variety of commercial, industrial, and governmental buildings built between about 1883 and 1925.
South Carolina State College Historic District is a national historic district located on the campus of South Carolina State University at Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object at the core of the historically black university .
Claflin University, founded in 1869, is the oldest historically black university in the state of South Carolina. In 2014 it was ranked by Washington Monthly as the top liberal arts college in the state and the top HBCU in the country. [18] South Carolina State University is a 4-year public historically Black institution in Orangeburg, founded ...
He holds membership with Delta Chi, the Orangeburg, South Carolina Boulé [12] of Sigma Pi Phi, the oldest African-American fraternity. [13] Williams lives in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He is married to Barbara Johnson Williams, a retired educator. [5] They met while Barbara was attending college, and he was the university photographer.
South Carolina Civil Rights Museum: Orangeburg: Orangeburg: Midlands: History: In a 3500 sq. ft. setting, history of the civil rights movement in South Carolina, including Briggs v. Elliott, Orangeburg Massacre, Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike, Harvey Gantt at Clemson, Orangeburg Freedom Movement. [25] Central History Museum: Central ...
Others have South Carolina historical markers (HM). The citation on historical markers is given in the reference. The location listed is the nearest community to the site. More precise locations are given in the reference. These listings illustrate some of the history and contributions of African Americans in South Carolina.
September 20, 1985 (South Carolina State University campus: Orangeburg: 11: East Russell Street Area Historic District: September 20, 1985 (Along sections of E. Russell St. between Watson and Clarendon Sts., and along portions of Oakland Pl. and Dickson and Whitman Sts.